"Infrastructure charges are a major issue with affordability of housing," he said.

"This is about encouraging employment, encouraging the development and building industry to continue, but at the same time have affordability.

"Making sure that we have certainty for developers, certainty for local government - it's in the middle, it's fair."

The Opposition voted for the bill, but LNP parliamentary leader Jeff Seeney says he is worried councils will use the new maximum as a standard charge.

"The last thing I want to see is for anybody to use the passage of this legislation as an excuse to raise existing infrastructure charges up to $28,000 when there is no justification for that," he said.